Incidents

With only 16 new victims reported over the 28-day period ending on November 2nd, the homicide rate in Philadelphia plummeted by more than 40 percent from the previous 28 days, according to the latest update from the Philadelphia Police Department.

Last year, October homicides increased slightly when compared to the previous month, and the same was true in 2012, according to the police department’s annual homicide report.

Average Philadelphia temperatures dropped by about 10 degrees from September to October, according to the National Weather Service, but that was true for the past two years as well.

Looking ahead, November homicide rates have dropped sharply when compared with October in recent years.

Total 2014 Philadelphia homicides are still running close to five percent ahead of last year’s pace, with 220 victims now reported this year to date, according to the police department’s Crime Maps and Stats page.

In recent years, more than 80 percent of Philadelphia homicides have been committed with guns, according to police data

Medics rushed a 21-year-old man to Einstein Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition with a leg wound after he was shot shortly before midnight Thursday on East Pastorious Street near Baynton Street in the East Germantown section of Philadelphia.

A wounded 25-year-old man was listed in stable condition Wednesday night after he arrived at Lankenau Hospital, just outside Philadelphia in Wynnewood, Pa. He was shot on Lansdowne Avenue near 62nd Street in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia, shortly before 10 p.m.

Seven shootings were reported in Philadelphia between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning, as we previously reported. We have found no other media reports addressing any of the last five Philadelphia shooting incidents.

Mapped: Seven shootings were reported in Philadelphia between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning.

A 17-year-old was listed in stable condition at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after he was shot in the knee around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday on South 66th Street near Grays Avenue in the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia.

An average of eight children and teens under the age of 20 are killed by guns every day in the United States, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which adds that more than one in five American teens between ages 14 and 17 now report having witnessed a shooting.

The teen wounded overnight was the seventh person shot in separate incidents reported across Philadelphia since early Tuesday afternoon.

• Police rushed a 30-year-old man to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition after he was shot four times around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday in the area of East Westmoreland and Tulip Streets in the Port Richmond section of the city.

• A 25-year-old man walked into the Aria Health Frankford Campus, where he was listed in stable condition with a foot wound after he was shot inside a home on Griscom Street near Dyre Street in Frankford shortly after 11:30 p.m.

• One man was killed and two more were wounded in separate shootings reported Tuesday in Philadelphia, as we previously reported.

The shooting victims reported in Philadelphia since Tuesday afternoon match the death toll of Ebola in the United States and represent twice as many hospitalizations. But we could find no media reports covering the four latest shootings as of early Wednesday morning.

A wounded 18-year-old man arrived at Einstein Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition after he was shot in the foot around 1:45 p.m. in the area of North 10th Street and West Olney Avenue in on the border of the city’s Logan and Fern Rock neighborhoods.

Shootings left two men wounded Monday in the Fairhill and Feltonville sections of the city, as we previously reported.

A 35-year-old man was reported in serious but stable condition after he was shot in both thighs, shortly before 3 p.m. Monday in the area of D and Rockland Streets in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia.